Democracy Freedom Of Speech Quotes

#1. Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong ... This [is] mostly BS.

Jeffrey A. Miller

#2. Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.

Sam Farr

#3. When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Thomas L. Friedman

#4. Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

Henry Adams

#6. Isocrates: Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.

Michael Lewis

#7. My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

Dylan Walsh

#8. When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

Auliq Ice

#9. The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.

Auliq Ice

#10. Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

Douglas Brinkley

#11. Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#12. Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

Ben Horowitz

#13. In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

Vartan Gregorian

#14. I die a little more, still in silence, paralysed by you, in fear, in pain.

Poppet

#15. Every single moment of reality instantly turns into memories; reality can not be caught; we can only catch memories.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#17. Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God's essence when it cannot even get to its own?

John Calvin

#18. Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals.

Michael D. O'Brien

#19. Every other basic right, such as the Formation of Government and the Right to Freedom of Organization, are simply practical extensions of the Right to Free Speech. On this law democracy stands or falls.

Stieg Larsson

#20. America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

Benazir Bhutto

#21. If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945]

George Orwell

#22. Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?

Jacques Barzun

#23. It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave

Kevin Gates

#24. A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#25. The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#26. It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder ... why didn't I get this sooner?

Ellen DeGeneres

#27. I'm going to marry you till you puke.

Lorrie Moore

#28. To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

William Shakespeare

#29. Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

Jan Koum

#30. We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other's freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for human rights.

Ellen J. Barrier

#31. i believe in the freedom of state where every people have to right develop their culture and maintain the democracy while two things are very essential justice and equality - Long Live Pakistan and Happy Independence Day

Avinash Advani

#32. What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Dick Gephardt

#33. I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.

Steve Wozniak

#34. As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

Bill Hader

#35. Just pass the work I assign along to somebody else and trust to luck. We call that delegation of responsibility.

Joseph Heller

#36. I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

Rupert Evans

#37. Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]

William O. Douglas